Good Sunday Morning

The birds are chirping and raucous calls in a distant sound like the flock of green noisy parrots that usually come to our neighbourhood for fruits. I am just waiting for my boys to get up and get ready for their tuition and piano lesson.

There is a series on Superparent in Channel News Asia. I did not follow the program conscientously although I do get snatches of the dialogue here and there. There is such a thing as too much for activities for kids. Some parents interviewed put their kids through tuition, piano, swimming, dancing and other classes. The experts in the panel will give their views on what the parents should do to optimise the kids performance.

I am thinking in the city, the close up nature of living together cause all of us to compare with each other and try to outdo each other to be the best we can be. As parents, we want to be better than other parents and want our kids to perform better than other kids or least realise the best performance from his or her capability.

Experiments on laboratory rats showed living in confined spaces and crowded conditions does cause stress and induced a lot of stress related behaviours. As the cities grow into megacities, pace and stress will increase. I hope we find ways of coping and dealing with city living.